Michael Gitelson

I possess the most important requirements for success in ABAP developer position, an ability to see and assess the big picture and translate it into a roadmap for the actual implementation.

I can quickly understand technical challenges and got quite some experience in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues. I have expert skills in reverse engineering which helps me in understanding of the underlying source code in order to recover Business Rules and Data Models and quickly develop complex software.

With my 18+ years of SAP development experience, qualifications and capacity, I am able to support existing codebase, design, develop, test, and implement new SAP programming objects to meet both precise and vague requirements from the Customer.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

•Dynamic, driven, and accomplished professional with 17 year’s expertise in RICEF (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements, and Forms) developments and understanding ASAP implementation methodology.
•Extensive experience in supporting and upgrading SAP programs and applications to improve quality and efficiency, including identifying and resolving technical problems.
•Expert knowledge in developing complex banking and credit card payment interfaces across SAP and third-party platforms in compliance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) to exchange data with different business partners, financial institutions and supply chains.
•Proven success in development of various ABAP programs, interactive dialogues, functional modules and groups, workflows, Core Data services (CDS), SAPScript and SmartForm layouts in SAP environment.
•Experience in working with Class Builder and RFC architecture, working knowledge in integration with FIORI applications using Gateway Service Builder (SEGW) aiming to support the creation of OData Services, including configuration of Gateway and OData infrastructure.

CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

SAP Systems: R/3 4.0 - 4.7, ECC6, S/4HANA 1709
SAP Modules: MM, FI-CO, SD/MSD, PM, PP, QM, CRM, BW, IS*MEDIA, HR and BASIS
Programming Languages: ABAP/4, DCL, SQL, JAVA, JS, HTML, CSS, C/C++ and Shell Scripting
SAP Enhancement Tools: User Exits, BADI, Transaction/Screen Variants
SAP Data Migration Tools: BDC/BI, LSMW and BAPI
Network Protocols: FTPS, SFTP, HTTPS and LFTP
JAVA APIs & Network Utilities: JAVA MindTerm & JScape APIs, LFTP, cURL and WGET
SAP HANA Services: SAP HANA XS, CDS, SEGW, OData,
EDIs: Eclipse Kepler SR2, Eclipse Neon 3 for SAP HANA Studio.
Project/Task Management Tools: SAP SolMan, JIRA for Agile Teams (KANBAN) and Test Director

SECURITY CLEARANCE

Level II (Secret)

WORK EXPERIENCE

SAP Technical Analyst/Developer (Contract)
?Defense Resource Management Information System at DND - Ottawa, ON May 2019 to January 2020
•Defined the technical requirements and successfully developed the automated POs processing programs using BAPIs.
•Developed a number of programs for identification and correction of errors within ME22N/MIGO data.
•Developed several workflows aimed at getting approvals for the MM changes including sending emails to approvers with appropriate work item links attached.
•Provided technical support to functional team and resolution of related issues using SAP OSS portal.
•Collaborated with appropriate teams to develop reporting environment using SAP Solution Manager.
•Conducted code quality check and performance optimization for existing programs.

SAP Senior Developer (Full Time) THE GLOBE AND MAIL - Toronto, ON
September 2005 to March 2019
?•SAP R/3 Implementation project: Integral participant in SAP full life cycle implementation including analysis, requirements gathering, legacy data migration support, development, testing, reporting, and post go-live support (R/3 4.6C with Oracle 10.2, later upgraded to ECC6 EHP5 with Oracle 11.2.0), liaised with the Functional Team to establish and document the ABAP requirements.
?•Tokenization Project: Implemented tokenization approach to reduce impact of PCI on SAP systems, improve security and minimize risk of data theft, resulting in up to $40-45K in revenue annually.
•HANA Transition Project: Key technical resource on successful transition to SAP S/4HANA 1709 including ABAP Code Remediation utilizing Code Pushdown, VDM and CDS methodologies.
•SAP to 3rd Party Integration Programs Development: created a number of programs and interfaces for FI-CO/ MSD and developed various tools and utilities to provide a secure way to exchange data with different financial institutions, business partners and banks, including IDOCS/EDI while implementing a family of secure file transfer protocols in compliance with PCI standards.
•Built a set of SAPScript and SmartForm layouts for different functional requirements and converted outdated SAPScript programs and forms into SmartForm layouts.
•Contributed to BW related projects which transformed data and expended standard functionality of existing plug-ins (data extractor) on R/3 side.
•Found and implemented numerous OSS notes for different business objects.
•Created and maintained data dictionary objects, including custom data repositories, customer reference tables, structures, views, data elements, domains, match codes, etc.
•Created code review and naming convention standard documents.
•Adapted a number of existing reports to FIORI applications using Gateway Service Builder (SEGW) aimed to support creation of OData Services.
•Worked with JIRA KANBAN as a system for Agile Project management and also as a defect tracking tool.

SAP R3/ABAP Senior Developer (Contract) CELLCOM Group - Netanya, Israel
2003 to 2005
•Conceptualized, designed and developed various reports, programs and interfaces for different modules, such as, MM, SD, PM, and RE (R/3 4.6C). Participated in design reviews and code walkthroughs and collaborated with users to establish and document the ABAP requirements. Created a set of SAP Script and modified existing layouts.
•Guarantee Program Quality and Robustness: Facilitated system efficiency through code quality check and performance optimization of existing programs, creation of auxiliary programs for data verification and tests, and identification of development objects; performed changes and testing.
•SAP Custom Enhancement: Conducted detailed analysis of functional specification solutions for SAP MM, implementing various BADIs to customize existing transactions using asynchronous function call techniques.
•Modified existing SAP Script layouts and relative programs for integration with "Xerox" print drivers to enhance the design of printed billing document (FI) and convert it into VIPP format.
•Address User Support: Built a set of dialogues to integrate with ITS WebPages for users self-service.
•Wrote detailed technical documentation of programs functionality.

SAP R3/ABAP Senior Developer (Full Time)
NESS A.T. LTD (The Israeli Partner of SAP) - Tel-Aviv, Israel 2002 to 2003
•Provided project technical/functional expertise in the SAP R/3 application module areas of MM, FI-CO, PP, QM and SD in Coca-Cola Israel, including full life cycle implementation, such as: legacy data migration support from Oracle Apps, development, testing, reporting, go-live and post go-live support.
•Data Migration: Successful migration of data from Oracle Apps to SAP R/3 system by creating a set of combined Batch Input and BAPI interfaces.
•Program/System Design & Development: Served as a key developer of various systems and programs, including QM programs for Product Code Decryption and Encryption.
•SAPScript and SmartForm Layouts - for printing additional documents and orders of MIGO and MB1B transactions for SAP MM module and F110 transaction for SAP FI module
•Developed Commitments System (Drilldown Dialogues) as additional transactions for SAP MM
•SAP Enhancement: Utilized BADI and User Exits in enhancing several transactions, such as, MIGO, ME21/22n, and ME51/52n for specific functional needs.

Master's Degree in Industrial Power Engineering and Heat Technology
SAINT-PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
SAP BC 400: ABAP Workbench Foundations Course – Certification
TCP/IP Architecture Course: Certification
JV016: Secure JAVA Application Development Based on OWASP Top for Vulnerabilities – Certification
KnowBe4: Security Awareness Training Course – Certification